What a day.

For those who remember when our computer crashed (ok so it crashed twice), when we got everything set back up I redid my mail. I forgot to add one of my accounts, so while I've been getting mail under one name, the other name was also getting mail, but I never saw it. Needless to say, that was the account that Ex. A's teacher uses to keep up with us (Gee, I was wondering why she never wrote anymore, but I thought with Christmas and all....) I'll just leave it at that, but you can imagine the mini-coronary I had when I realized we had missed a couple of important emails from her. We got it all cleared up and all is well now.

Not only that, but three people have been trying to reach me to about the following matters (names deleted-I mean really...I don't wanna blow my chances by having you beat me to this):

"...I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. (deleted) did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$11,500,000.00 is still in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. In accordance with the Nigerian Federal Law, at the expiration of 4 (four) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, I shall present you as a foreign partner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. (deleted) so that you and i can benefit from the fruits of this old man's labour to enhance Humanitarian Organisation World wide..."


"..Before my father finally gave up he was able to tell me that he kept some money in a security company abroad which he wanted to use to bring in ammunations totalling $10.5m and that the certificate that was issued to him when he lodged the money with them is in his closet in his room that I should ,but before he could finish his statement ,he died .So I quickly rushed to his closet and saw the certificate and the contact telephone number of the security company,I contacted them and they confirmed my father has a consignment in thier custody. Personally I would like to continue and finish my education and become a medical doctor which has been my dream from childhood but this camp we are now nothing is happening ,the Nigerian government is doing nothing to improve our lives so I would want you to help me take custody of this money($10.5m) from the security company and arrange for my coming over to complete my education in your country.It is in this direction I seek your assistance.While am schooling you can invest part of the money into any viable business until I will complete my medical course and join you up in the investment...."

".... I am Mr. (deleted), the Deputy Managing Director Of Commercial Bank Of Africa. I am writing in respect of a late foreign customer,Mr. (deleted), of my bank with account number (deleted) to the tune of Twenty-Nine million, Nine hundred thousand United states dollars[$29.9m], who perished with his entire family (His wife and only son) in a motor accident along Sagbama express road on the 21st of April 2001. All the occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since the demise of this customer,l have made valuable efforts,as his accounting officer,to get in touch with any of the late customer's Next-of-Kin or relative anywhere in the world but unfortunately,all my efforts did not yield any positive results as no one has come-up to claim his total funds which has been with my bank for a very long time. Recently,the top management of my Bank has given me an ultimatum to provide the next of kin or have the total fund in the deceased's account confiscated within the next thirty official working days. Because the banking ethics here does not allow foreign funds of any deceased customers to stay more than three years that means that this money will be recalled to the treasury as unclaimed after this period. On this note,l have reasoned that if l fail to present the next-of-Kin to claim this money the bank top management will confisticate it and someone else will end up looting it in the treasury. Therefore,I decided to locate any foreigner who can front that he/she is related to the deceased customer. Hence, l decided to contact you as a foreigner to stand as the Next-of-Kin to the deceased customer's account to claim his total fund with the bank so that the proceeds of his account can be paid to you..."

hmm. wonder if it is too late to contact these people? :)